The nopal is a cetacean plant (Cactus) originating in Mexico, It has a sweet taste and staining greenish pulp, used in a myriad of preparations, and in this case what we do will be one of the most popular Mexican salad; When handling the nopalitos you must be very careful that as all cacti has lots of thorns.

Many people avoid eating them since cooking them may submit a "Slug" texture, If you questions as prepare nopales without having this inconvenience, Do not worry, with the recipe that you introduced then we get rid of this problem. Among the recipes with Cactus is a salad that you prepararas easily and smoothly.

So if like to know as prepare nopalitos in this way in particular, only read, It first that haras will be cooking them.

As Cook Cactus without baba

Already entering into matter, When it comes to cook nopales, eliminating the inconvenience of the baba, you will need the following items:

A pot of copper or failing a piece of copper or silver.

2 Cactus cups chopped diced.

1/4 white onion.

4 Cloves of garlic.

Salt to taste

Step 1: As you mentioned, the sheet of Cactus have spines, Despite being very fine and delicate these thorns can hurt you, so the first thing you'll do is take each blade with a clip and pass it through your burner flame, in this way you burns the thorn and decrease the risk of puncturing you.

Step 2: With a sharp knife cut the Bank of all the prickly pear leaves and cut the bumps that were thorns counter to them to eliminate them completely.

Step 3: Wash the Cactus already without thorns or banks and cut into dices, put them in the pot of copper together with the liter of water, or in the event that you do not have a copper pot cooking them in an ordinary along with the pieces of silver or copper, the onion, the whole garlic cloves and salt; Let them cook for 12 minutes from the moment when the water comes to a boil.

Step 4: Once it has fulfilled the time passing them to cool in a bowl (Don't let it cool in the same pot for cooking)

Nopales salad recipe

Once you have your cooked nopales you Let's we begin preparation of the salad, you will need the following ingredients: